KINSTON, N.C. (WITN) - Hundreds of people gathered at the Grainger Stadium parking lot Saturday afternoon to receive home-cooked Thanksgiving meals from Sisters United of Kinston.

The organization, founded by sisters Victor Fields and Hattie King Hall, marked its 13th year of distributing community meals. Organizers said this year’s event was more needed than ever.

“We were noticing that a lot of people in Kinston were homeless, going to the shelter, eating, and everything, and God just put it on our hearts to start this,” Victor Fields said.

The sisters initially funded the distribution with their own money and prepared all the food themselves. Fields and Hall, who are older now, still cook for these community distributions. In fact, they cooked 12 whole turkeys in preparation for the

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